May 17, 2021, New York 一 Today, the New York State Senate and Assembly introduced the Dignity Not Detention Act , a bill that would end existing and future contracts with Immigration and Customs...
...“I’m really hurt that I’m having to sue GDC over the same set of circumstances,” Diamond wrote in an email sent to her lawyer, according to the New York Times . “It is no easy task taking on a...
... Diamond has been in and out of prison several times, and even benefited from the filing of an Obama Administration amicus brief in one of her earlier lawsuits struggling for appropriate treatment...
...Attorneys at the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights are representing Diamond in her quest to be transferred to a female prison. Her lawsuit, filed in November...
...With my legal team at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, I’m once again challenging my placement in a men’s prison, along with the GDC’s failure to keep me...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to support the #FreeAshleyNow team and partners for a letter writing event for our client, Ashley Diamond, a Black trans woman and social justice...
In, “Motherhood on Trial: Pregnant and Incarcerated,” Legal Administrative Associate Afrika Owes spoke with De'Jone Watts about her experiences as an incarcerated mother and shed light on the...
Michael Ratner devoted four decades of his life at the Center for Constitutional Rights as a staff attorney, legal director, and board president until his untimely death in 2016. We miss him...
...The men who were isolated in the torturous Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU) for decades decided in 2011 to go on Hunger Strike after they had exhausted all other internal remedies to win...
... Darius Charney, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, faced off against the Law Department when he litigated the yearslong stop-and-frisk trial Floyd v. City of New York...
